Download or read book The Constitutional Duty of the Federal Government to Abolish American Slavery written by Abolition Society of New York Vicinity and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Constitutional Duty of the Federal Government to Abolish American Slavery: An Expose of the Position of the Abolition Society of New-York City and Vicinity We mean that slaveholding is illegal, as other criminal practices are illegal We affirm that there is no legislation in any of the States that makes it legal. We maintain that, even without any legislation against slavery, it is now the right and duty of the Courts of Justice to liberate any slave who may bring a suit for his or her freedom. Why Slavery is Illegal. We affirm its illegality on two general grounds: First, Slavery can not possibly be legalized. Second, If it could be, it never has been, and is not now, legalized in this country. The ground first mentioned is that of an universal and immutable principle; the second is that of history, and of existing local fact. First, Slavery can not possibly be legalized. In its very nature it is incapable of legalization. The standard writers on common law affirm the impossibility of legalizing slavery, even by positive municipal law. They declare the right to liberty to be inalienable, and that statutes against fundamental morality are void. The nature of civil government and of civil law, as defined by all standard writers on those subjects, proves it impossible to legalize slavery. "To secure" man's inalienable rights, "governments are instituted among men." And consequently they can have no lawful authority to violate the rights which they exist only to protect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Constitutional Duty of the Federal Government to Abolish American Slavery written by Abolition Society of New-York City and Vicinity and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Constitutional Duty of the Federal Government to Abolish American Slavery written by Abolition Society Of New York Vicinity and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Constitutional Duty of the Federal Government to Abolish American Slavery written by American Abolition Society and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise on the Unconstitutionality of American Slavery written by Joel Tiffany and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Views of American Constitutional Law written by William Goodell and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crooked Path to Abolition Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution written by James Oakes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
Download or read book The Constitution of the United States with a Lecture by Daniel Foster Showing that a Fair Interpretation and Application of Said Constitution Will Abolish Slavery and Establish Liberty written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Constitution written by Noah Feldman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations
Download or read book A Constitutional Manual for the National American Party written by Thomas Robinson Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Download or read book Constitution written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antislavery Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment written by Jacobus tenBroek and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
Download or read book Equal Under Law written by Jacobus TenBroek and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the origins of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. The author gives a scholarly presentation of the evidence, and a cautious formulation of the argument. He shows how these Civil War Amendments were the natural culmination of the antislavery movement, which sought to recall Americans to the conviction that human beings have inherent and inalienable rights, of which no government may deprive them, and that human beings have these rights without regard to race or color. The author also concludes that among men's natural rights are personal security, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, life, liberty, and property, and fair judicial process, and that these natural rights (as well as others) were binding on the state governments no less than on the federal government, and that the state governments had a duty to protect them. Pamphlets and other documentary products of the early abolitionist movement are analyzed to show the history of these Amendments in the political events of the Civil War, in the work of the Republican Party which led to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau, and related constitutional changes.
Download or read book Speech of Hon J M Ashley of Ohio written by James Mitchell Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Powers of the Federal Government Over Slavery written by Wilcox Andrew J (Andrew Jackson) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew J. Wilcox's The Powers of the Federal Government over Slavery is a legal treatise on the constitutionality of slavery in the United States. Wilcox argues that the federal government has the power to regulate and even abolish slavery, despite claims to the contrary by proponents of states' rights. This work is an important contribution to the legal and political debates surrounding slavery in the mid-19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
